Test System Setup

Test System

Intel Coppermine P3-600E(6x100MHz)
Abit FC-PGA to Slot-1 adapter
Abit BE6-II motherboard

Mushkin 128MB PC133 CAS2 SDRAM

Western Digital Caviar ATA-66 hard drive

Windows 98 SE

Windows 98 SE with Updates

GeForce 256 32MB DDR
Driver version: Detonator 6.18

Benchmarks

3DMark2000 - 640x480x16
3DMark2000 - 640x480x32
3DMark2000 - 800x600x16
3DMark2000 - 800x600x32
3DMark2000 - 1024x768x16
3DMark2000 - 1024x768x32

SiSoft Sandra 2000 - Hard Drive Test

WinStone99

WinBench99 - High End Disk
WinBench99 - Business Disk

Quake 3 Retail - 640x480 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 800x600 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1024x768 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1280x1024 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1600x1200 Fastest, Normal, High Quality

Notes

We had a network card installed on the system to download the updates. The card was then removed for the duration of the testing.

It would have been nice to test if network performance had increased, but we just don't have the tools to do so.